The Republican agenda is becoming more severely conservative, not less so

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Mar 14, 2013 at 11:25 AMMar 14, 2013 at 1:14 PM

All of that supposed soul-searching by Republicans in the wake of their losses in the November elections has not resulted in any discernible moderation.

Quite the contrary seems to be the case, as Tim Dickinson EXPLAINS:

After watching voters punish the GOP in the 2012 elections, Republican elites have been talking a brave game about reforms that would make the party less repulsive to Latinos, women and gay-friendly millennials. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the GOP’s hip-hop-quoting young standard-bearer, is pressing conservatives to back an amnesty for undocumented immigrants. Dozens of party stalwarts, headlined by former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, ...

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All of that supposed soul-searching by Republicans in the wake of their losses in the November elections has not resulted in any discernible moderation.

Quite the contrary seems to be the case, as Tim Dickinson EXPLAINS:

After watching voters punish the GOP in the 2012 elections, Republican elites have been talking a brave game about reforms that would make the party less repulsive to Latinos, women and gay-friendly millennials. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the GOP’s hip-hop-quoting young standard-bearer, is pressing conservatives to back an amnesty for undocumented immigrants. Dozens of party stalwarts, headlined by former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, ...